Bed-covering-sustaining means.



E. ZIMMERMANN.

BED COVERING SUSTAINING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20. 1909 RENEWED JUNE 15, 1914.

1,1 12,514. Patented 0011.6, 1914.

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EUGEN ZIMMERMANN, F PEOEIA, ILLINOIS.

BED-COVERING-SUSTAINING MEANS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGEN ZIMMERMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Covering-Sustaining Means; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to a new and improved bed-covering sustaining means, and has for its object to provide a support for a bed by means of which the covering therefor may be sustained in a suitable or convenient position above the mattress, for airing the bed and covering, or held immediately above the body of a person lying upon the bed, to relieve the body of the weight of the covering, and to otherwise support the covering so that it may be maintained entirely over the body of a person, or not, as may be desired.

The invention consists essentially of supports adapted to be secured in an adjustable manner to the posts or foot portion of a bed, preferably to the foot portion, and telescopic rods adjustably connected with said supports and extending longitudinally of the bed and carrying means for attaching and sustaining the bed covering on said telescopic rods.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which cor responding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employedFigure 1 is a side elevation of a conventional form of brass-bed with my improved bed-covering sustaining means appl ed thereto; F1g. 2 is Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 845,297.

an enlarged sectional detail, partly broken away, showing one or" the telescopic rods; Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view, parts in sec tion, showing a. corner post 01"? a bed and the manner of securing a support thereto, and

Fig. 4 is a sectional detail showing the mansists of two spaced parallel rods 6 which cartend transversely of the bed, preferably adjacent to the foot portion thereof and said rods 6 are adjustably and detachably connected to the foot posts 2 of the bed by means of brackets 7 having the split portion 8 to be secured to the posts by bolts 9 and also provided with the tubular portions 10 through which the rods 6 extend and which are adjustably secured in said tubular portions by thumb-nuts 11.

To the rods 6, are adjustably attached brackets 12 which may be secured in adjusted positions by means of thumb-nuts 13. These brackets have vertical tubular portions 14 in which are carried vertically disposed rods 15 and said rods are sustained in adjusted positions in said brackets by means of thumb-nuts 16.

17, 18 and 19 denote extensible or telescopic sections of longitudinally disposed rods which have an adjustable connection with the rods 15 through brackets 20 carried on the rods 15 and held in apljusted positions by the thumb-nut 21. For the purpose of bracing said telescopic rods 1 provide the brace bar 22 disposed at an incline and attached at its upper end to a collar 22 car ried on the section 17 of the telescopic rod and its lower end to a collar 23 on the rod 15. The collar 23 1s ZLClJUStELblG to correspond to the adjustment to be made with the bracket 20.

The sections 17, 18 and 19 of the telescopic or extensible rods are'each smaller Patented Oct. 6, 1914. Application filed September 20, 1909, Serial No. 518,500. Renewed June 15,).914.

than the other, so that the sections may be extended approximately the full length of the bed or shortened, as may be desired. The section 17 of each rod is attached to a bracket 20, but not until after the sections 18 and 19 have been inserted in place through the section 11'. Such a construction is preferred, although other ways of connecting the sections may be just as desirable. Each section 17 on its outer end has the head 2-1- with which will engage an enlargement 25 on the inner end of section 18 to limit its outward movement. @n the outer end of each section 18 is a head 26 with which will engage an enlargement 27 on the inner end of section 19 to limit its outward movement. The head 26 on sections 18 will also limit the inward movement of said sections. To the outer end of each section 19 is attached the end of a crossrod 28, connected to the two telescopic rods so as to limit the inward movement of the sections 19 and to provide a means, whereby an operator may telescope the two telescopic rods simultaneously, and with one operation. It will thus be observed that the length of the telescopic rods are determined by the number and length of the several sections and the shortest which the rods may be made is determined by the length of the first section.

On the sections of the telescopic rods are carried a plurality of slidable rings 30, each of which have an eye 31 to which may be connected hooks 32 to which the bed-covering is attached, as shown.

In a conventional way, in Fi g. 1, the bedcovering for a bed is shown sustained above the mattress, by the telescopic rod sections 1.7, '18 and 19 and rings 31. 1t will be observed from an examination of this and other figures of the drawing, that the sections 17, 18 and 19 may be telescoped in or out or that the rings 31 may be moved back and forth along the telescopic rods to suitably position the covering endwise of the bed; also, that the rods 15 with the telescopic rod sections may be adjusted vertically of the bed or the telescopic rod sections and brace adjusted on said rods 15 for positioning the covering relative to the mattress, and that the support for the rods 15 as well as the attachments for said supports may be ad justed on the bed, to accommodate the entir apparatus to different heights and widths of beds.

. .Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A bed covering sustaining means, comprising spaced members and means for attaching the same to a bed frame, a plurality of vertical supports and means for adjustably attaching said supports to said spaced members in spaced relation to each other,

other members carried by said supports, and a bed covering sustaining means on said second mentioned members.

2. A bed covering sustaining means, comprising spaced members and means for attaching the same to a bed frame, a plurality of vertical supports and means for attaching said supports to said spaced members, said vertical supports being adjustable in both a vertical and a horizontal direction relative to said spaced members, and extensible members carried by said supports j I 3. A bed covering sustaining means, comprising spaced members and means for attaching the same to a bed frame, a plurality of vertical supports and means for attaching said suppoits to said spaced members, said vertical supports being adjustable in both a vertical and a horizontal direction relative to said spaced members, and extensible members carried by said supports, and bed covering sustaining means adjustable on said extensible members.

i. A bed covering sustaining means comprising rods adapted to be secured transversely to a bed frame, a plurality of vertically disposed rods and means for attaching the same to said transversely disposed rods, telescopic rods extending transversely from and supported by said vertical rods, brace bars for said telescopic rods, and means carried by said telescopic rods adapted to sustain the bed covering.

5. A bed covering sustaining means, comprising pairs of brackets which are adapted to be secured in adjustable relation to each other to a. part of a bed, transverse rods connected with said pairs of brackets, additional brackets having an adjustable relation on said rods, uprights adj ustably car ried in said last mentioned brackets, and means for supporting a bed covering connected with and extending from the upper ends of said uprights.

6. A bed covering sustaining means, comprising brackets adapted to be secured to one end of a bed frame, transverse rods adjustably secured to said brackets, additional bracket members mounted on said transverse rods and having vertically disposed openings therethrough, uprights adjustably secured in said openings in said additional bracket members, and rods adjustably secured on the upper portions of said uprights and adapted to extend along the sides of a bed frame.

7. A bed covering sustaining means, comprising brackets adapted to be secured to one end of a bed frame, transverse rods adjustably secured to said brackets, additional bracket members mounted on said transverse rods and having vertically disposed openings therethrough, uprights adjustably secured in said openings in said additional bracket members, and extensible rods ad- In testimony whereof I afiix my signajustably secured on the upper portions of ture, in presence of tWo'Witnesses.

said uprights and adapted to extend along EUGEN ZIMMERMANN.

the sides of a bed frame, and a connecting l Witnesses: 5 rod between the free ends of said extensible CHAS. W. LA PORTE,

rods. l ROBERT PLOUR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,-

Washington, I). C. 

